The next installment in the exciting Rescue Bears series from Scarlett Grove!
Dashed hopes ...
Drew Bock is thrilled when he meets his fated mate at a wedding and the chemistry between them is immediate and overwhelming.
But when she runs away after their one amazing night together, cutting herself off from him, her friends, and everyone else, Drew’s beyond devastated. How could his own mate treat him like some terrifying beast?
Dazed hearts ...
Quinn Jacobs isn’t trying to hurt Drew, or anyone. She’s just a little freaked out and needs some time to get her head together.
She’s always known who she is -- a confident, curvy, sassy woman who loves her PR job. But her shifter-hating parents filled her head with countless lies while she was growing up. How can she be mated to someone she’s been taught her whole life to fear?
Dire straits
When Quinn finally comes back, nine months later, Drew isn’t at all sure he’s ready to forgive her. But she needs him ... and so does their soon-to-be-born child.
Their reconciliation turns perilous when Quinn goes into labor while they’re trapped in an isolated cabin. Can Drew, with a little help from the rest of the rescue crew, keep his new family safe and make sure they get their happy ending? Views: 765
Gracey hoped a trip to Africa would help her to escape her mundane life and the torture she endured daily. Her mother had been murdered in what appeared to be an animal attack. Her father was in prison for killing a man in a bar fight. While searching for her mother’s killer, she finds her soul mate and learns the truth about herself.Gracey hoped a trip to Africa would help her to escape her mundane life and the torture she endured daily. Her mother had been murdered in what appeared to be an animal attack. Her father was in prison for killing a man in a bar fight. Secretly, she was in love with the son of the man who owned the bank where she worked. She had been in love with Stone for nearly seven years. Little did she know a trip half way around the world would change her life forever. While searching for her mother’s killer, she finds her soul mate and learns the truth about herself. Views: 765
From New York Times bestselling author James Rollins comes a lightning-paced short story, in which a major attack on U.S. soil can only be stopped by…The Midnight Watch
In the dead of night, a faceless enemy hacks into the Smithsonian Institution’s network of servers, but it is only the first strike masking a larger attack. To rescue a biologist trapped in the National Museum of Natural History and to discover the true intent behind an assault that grows bolder and bloodier by the minute, Sigma Force must unleash its most headstrong operative—Joe Kowalski—to do what he does best: lay waste to anything between him and his goal. From a daring rescue to a cross-city chase like no other, Kowalski will discover the shocking truth hidden in the most unexpected of places: the heart of the National Zoo.
Included with this short story is a sneak peek at The Bone Labyrinth, where events that unfold here explode into one of Sigma Force’s greatest adventures of all time. Views: 765
There is a story that floats around Norway, passing from ear to ear - of a man, an old musician, who lives alone on the isle of Spitsbergen, Svalbard, maintaining the largest Global Seed Vault on Earth. Forlorn with the death of his wife, he spends his days obsessing over the Seedbank, wasting away until bitter death greets. But death does not have to be bitter.There is a story that floats around Norway, passing from ear to ear - of a man, an old musician, who lives alone on the isle of Spitsbergen, Svalbard, maintaining the largest Global Seed Vault on Earth. Forlorn with the death of his wife, he spends his days obsessing over the Seedbank, wasting away until bitter death greets. But death does not have to be bitter. For Florin Natvig, the subject of such a tale, life is hard. Day by day he battles the cruel elements of the Arctic Circle, while confused and disorientated in his psychological state. And when death finally does approach he must choose; die with closure, or die with pain. But for an elderly man alone in Svalbard, such emptiness and isolation before death, can destroy. Views: 765
Dr. Herbert Marriott has a problem that only murder can solve. Luckily for him, the perfect weapon is locked away in his rundown museum, one too incredible for any court to accept. The cursed chair kills all who rest upon it. But will Herbert’s victim be so easily drawn to her fate?A four and half thousand word short story.THE HEALING PLACE Clare NonhebelSYNOPSISFranz Kane has invested time, money and energy into setting up The Healing Place, a state-of-the-art building with superb facilities, offering an impressive range of holistic therapies and mind-enriching courses to city-dwellers eager to escape the stresses of life.Running such an enterprise has stresses of its own, and not only lighter-hearted errors such as locating Primal Scream Therapy in the next room to Silent Meditation; some serious concerns are beginning to surface. Although Franz promotes inclusive acceptance of every person and every shade of belief, barring religion and obvious cults, there are few people he genuinely trusts. Now two of them - his girlfriend Ella and the psychic, Sharma, a mainstay of The Healing Place - have some challenging questions for Franz.Cracks are beginning to appear in the fabric of the building, and in the persona of Franz himself. He experiences first an outburst of rage against a local vicar, then fear of a sinister stranger who mirrors Franz's own dismissal of moral imperatives, and finally a near-violent impulse against Ella, newly pregnant with his baby.Despite Ella's and Sharma's warnings and encouragement, Franz clings to his image as 'the man with no yesterday,' avoiding every question about his past. But when Sharma takes time out from The Healing Place - in response to a request from local police to help find two kidnapped boys - circumstances begin to force Franz to face himself and his own history.When he makes a sudden decision to go to Ireland, he invites Ella to come with him, on the condition that she asks no questions of him. Trusting his integrity but struggling with fears for Franz and for the future of their unborn Ella begins to find some answers when they visit a convent nursing home where a frail and elderly Catholic priest is dying.But just as they both begin to uncover the past, the future is jeopardised: The Healing Place faces its own baptism of fire, apparently an arson attack by someone who wishes Franz harm.Sharma, who challenged Franz to stop pretending to accept every version of truth as equally valid and to confront his own beliefs and prejudices, is struggling to remain calm as he moves nearer to discovering what has happened to the abducted children. His own children, meanwhile, who had been taken abroad when their mother left him are returning home with an overwhelming need of their own - to be their father's main priority.Reviewing his own priorities, and more aware now of his motivation for founding The Healing Place, Franz has to confront the question of whether the remedies it offers are actually healing anyone.An unexpected source of enlightenment turns up in the form of childhood friend, Patrick, now working in London, who has been looking for Franz under his original name, and a young doctor, Jake. Their shared vision for a new project begins to absorb Franz as well, if he can learn to trust again and work with them as a team.Patrick, who grew up with Franz and knows his extraordinary history, and Ella who until recently only knew him in his recent role as director of The Healing Place, hold between them the key to Franz's own healing.But before they can all move forward, there are still two frightened children to be found, and in the process of standing in for Sharma in one of his classes, Franz begins to understand something of the strange path that Sharma himself has chosen and the hazards he is going through in tracing the abducted boys.At the same time, the vicar and the sinister figure both move into the spotlight and will each make their indelible imprint on the future of The Healing Place, on Franz and Ella and the generation to come. Views: 765
A collection of amazing heart felt, positive, uplifting poems.This book also covers the basics of what you need to know in order to write amazing poetry.Sample: Beauty Abounding - Mind blowing awesomeness I see;A gorgeous construction created for me.Beauty abounding;So outstanding;Giving a sunset cost free.David and his father, Sam, are both trying to rebuild their lives after David's mother and Sam's wife died. After a failed attempt at the summit of Mount of the Holy Cross, Sam's last 14er to climb and David's first, both are eager to try to climb it again.But this climb is for more than just joy. This is about reviving a family and paying respect to others.What happens when the two reach the summit, however, will shape their lives forever. Views: 764
A hapless geek finds himself on the beta program for a revolutionary operating system - in a Faustian deal that grants him the perfect job and perfect life in exchange for simply giving his blessing to the program. As with most things that come so easy, he found this life less than fulfilling, and watches in horror as the program he endorsed rains chaos down on the world.Welcome to Fritesite! Prepare to be Disturbed... Some experimental treatments come at a great cost to both patients and innovators. As Lieutenant Cargill finds out the hard way by loosing his wife through innovations in a new treatment called "Teleportherapy". Enjoy this flagship story from the pages of the new horror/mystery series, Fritesite, coming to you from CE Publishing Group. Prepare for a wild ride suspense and horror direct from the mastermind of writer and illustrator Martin Malin. Views: 764
When her island home is invaded by enemy soldiers, her family captured, and the town enslaved, Taylina must find a way to fight back and free her people. But their enemies have powerful warships, sorcerers, and dragons. Her simple people are no match. Her only hope is to venture onto the forbidden half of the island and seek the one individual powerful enough to battle their enemies, a dragon known for eating humans rather than helping them.
Find out what happens to Taylina and meet the dragon who thinks he’s a god in Dragon Rider, a prequel to Lindsay’s USA Today bestselling Dragon Blood series.
In addition to Dragon Rider, Beginnings features four previously published fantasy adventure novels, all with new introductions from the author:
Encrypted
The Emperor’s Edge
Balanced on the Blade’s Edge
Warrior Mage Views: 763
Project 6 is an interactive short story. Take on the role of agent 6, a Magnet Securities operative ordered to take out terrorists who have stormed LAX. Mission discretion is yours alone. How the mission proceeds, and how it ends, is up to you.Requires Amazon Kindle or Mobi for reader input to work.It is 2012. A new year, and a new era of counter-terrorism. Magnet Securities, the largest private security firm in America, leads the fight against rising domestic terror groups in the country. But do their methods make them better than the very people they hunt?Project 6 is an interactive short story. Take on the role of agent 6, a Magnet Securities operative ordered to take out terrorists who have stormed LAX. Mission discretion is yours alone. How the mission proceeds, and how it ends, is up to you.Requires Amazon Kindle or Mobi for reader input to work. Views: 763
After spending 17 years of his life in intense training, suffering malnutrition and all kinds of adversity, Bars Ibis has 24 hours to construct his Shell before facing the lethal challenges of the Old Earth. He and his coevals have only one mission – to survive the Feeding Season.The Fortress – the only haven for humanity is falling apart. The destructive storms that have been roaring across the surface of the planet for centuries have caused irreparable damage to the ancient structure. Now the population of the Fortress is living in misery and deprivation. With the ever-present danger of overpopulation and with the occurrence of an epidemic a few centuries ago, a special law was introduced for all the 17 year-old boys. Since then, every year at the beginning of the Feeding Season, the Descent happens, which main goal is to decrease the general population of the Fortress.Now it’s Bars turn along with his mates to leave the safety of their only home and roam about the dangerous surface of the Earth, fighting for their life, crammed into survival suits constructed of useless garbage. If they survive long enough, they have a chance of returning to the Fortress as Heroes, but their way back to is fraught with unexpected challenges and trials that aren't even mentioned in the ancient books. Views: 763
From the New York Times bestselling author of Robopocalypse comes a fascinating and fantastic collection that explores complex emotional and intellectual landscapes at the intersection of artificial intelligence and human life. A VINTAGE BOOKS ORIGINAL.
In "All Kinds of Proof," a down-and-out drunk makes the unlikeliest of friends when he is hired to train a mail-carrying robot; in "Blood Memory," a mother confronts the dangerous reality that her daughter will never assimilate in this world after she was the first child born through a teleportation device; in "The Blue Afternoon That Lasted Forever," a physicist rushes home to be with his daughter after he hears reports of an atmospheric anomaly which he knows to be a sign of the end of the earth; in "Miss Gloria," a robot comes back to life in many different forms in a quest to save a young girl. Guardian Angels and Other Monsters displays the depth and breadth of Daniel H. Wilson's vision and examines how artificial intelligence both saves and destroys humanity. Views: 763
Georgia 1864: Sherman's army marches inexorably from Atlanta to the sea. In its path: the charming old city of Savannah, where the Lester ladies-attractive widow Sara and her feisty twelve-year-old daughter Hattie-struggle to save the family rice plantation. When Sherman offers the conquered city to President Lincoln as "a Christmas gift," Hattie and the feared general find themselves on a collision course that will astonish both of them. Views: 763
Clayton is a nerdy teen who is constantly bullied by his peers at Gladeway High and too unappealing to win the affections of his high school crush. But a wristwatch belonging to his grandfather might change all that forever...Clayton loathes going to school and being bullied every day by Blaine Jansen, the star athlete at Gladeway High. Most days Clayton wishes he could either be invisible or attractive enough to win the heart of his long-time crush, Maddie. One day while sorting through his deceased grandfather’s belongings, Clayton finds an old wristwatch that might make his wishes come true…PLEASE NOTE: Carpe Tempus is a short story aimed at young adults. Views: 763
Mass market paperback by Dell/Laurel Leaf, 1974. Edited by Robert Silverberg with introduction. Three sci-fi novellas: 'And Us, Too, I Guess' by George Effinger; 'Chains of the Sea' by Gardner R. Dozois; 'The Shrine of Sebastian' by Gordon Eklund. Views: 762
Sadie Becker is not herself. A 40-year-old, divorced mother of two, Sadie wakes up one morning and realizes that she looks and feels like she did in her twenties. Suddenly she’s unable to walk around in her new town of Cougarville without men falling at her feet. Confused and alone, Sadie isn’t sure who to turn to…except answers to her problems might reside with her broodingly handsome reclusive neighbor, Mathis.
An alpha shifter, Mathis lost the love of his life, and he knows he’ll never find another mate. But his innocent new neighbor clearly doesn’t know the danger she’s in, and he's the only one who can save her.
But when the attraction pulls too strong, will Mathis’ animal nature be unleashed and claim Sadie for his own? Buck Naked is a sexy, emotional thrill-ride that will hook readers on this fantastic new series. Views: 762
